This is a notice to let y'all know I'm going on vacation.
Kinda. Sorta maybe halfway.
I've determined that I need to budget the time I spend online through the 2nd. Not because I need a break from y'all
- but because I need to force myself to focus.As most of you know, I'm in the death throes of finishing a complete draft of my novel "Peter's Angel." My current goal is to finish part 1 by the end of the year. That means writing between 20k-30k more words and giving the finished part a light proofread by next Saturday.
Therefore, I need to buckle down and crunch it out. It's going to take several hours of work a day to get that goal in, so I need to focus and resist taking on extra projects.
Why am I telling y'all this? Well, two reasons. First, so that if I vanish from the internet, you know what happened. I'll probably still be on the forums a bit, especially in the morning, but I may be sporadic. I may also be slow to reply to emails. Therefore, I gotta ask that y'all not give me any new projects until January.
No more podcast interviews, Skype meetings, that kind of thing. I need to be on my own schedule for awhile. If I promised to get something done for you by the first, it will still happen, but I need to focus internally for the remainder of the year.Second, and perhaps more important, I want to ask for your prayer. Peter's Angel is not a normal book for me. It is my masterpiece, my monster. God used this book to change my life, no exaggeration, but that didn't come without pain. Emotionally this book is a heavy battle, and right now the writing is also technically difficult. The characters are being abnormal, I'm fighting between info dump and not getting all my guns hung on the wall, and overall the writing is going fairly slow. Add that to the fact that I need to write around 4,000 words or more a day...
That's why I need to discipline myself and give the book the time it needs. That's why I need your prayer. God has pulled me and the book through so far. I know He can get me to the end of the year, to His glory. But I'd deeply appreciate your prayer - and your understanding while I try to tell myself to intentionally ignore y'all.
Thank you all - and Merry Christmas!
Quote:
Psa 18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
*tosses some cupcakes around*
*hugs *
We make dramatics because we will miss you, you silly! A perfectly good reason. 